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UPDATE: More clues found on site where human remains discovered

12:39 p.m.

Law enforcement officials are finding pieces of clothing and other skeletal fragments as they search a heavily wooded area off McCullough Creek in Southwest St. Johns County.

They're looking for clues to the identity of a body discovered there over the weekend by an individual interested in purchasing property, St. Johns County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Chuck Mulligan said.

The majority of a skeleton, a full set of upper dentures and some apparel — blue shorts with a brown belt, blue long sleeve shirt, a pair of 42-44 sized paisley boxer shorts and size 10 1/2 shoes — seem to indicate the person is a man.

But officials don't know for sure.

They do know that the remains don't match descriptions of anyone missing from St. Johns County, Mulligan said.

He said about 40 to 50 people were searching the woods Tuesday morning, doing excavations and removing foliage to better reveal clues.

Law enforcement agencies from Putnam and Brevard counties are assisting with cadaver dogs, he said. So are Police Academny recruits from St. Johns River State College.

Check StAugustine.com later for more information.

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St. Johns County Sheriff's Office investigators are trying to identify human skeletal remains found near McCullough Creek in Southwest St. Johns County.